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July 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Well, the Trumpster has landed in Cleveland.
And the TV cameras followed the taxi all the way in.
Trump is still taxiing in.
The Pence family is walking out there to greet the Trump family as they get off of Trump Force One.
Or maybe they call it Trumpist one.
And then Trump and Pence have a meet and greet.
Sometime soon this afternoon.
CNN's making a big deal out of the fact that Trump's going to ride into town on a chopper.
And I think they're doing that.
See, he's really not a man of people.
Most candidates would take a motorcade in, but no!
Trump, Trump has to be above everybody.
He's gonna fly in his own helicopter.
Well, doesn't the president fly around on Marine One?
In fact, there are two marines.
Sometimes there's three.
Do you know that?
Sometimes they use a deploy through.
I mean, at the same time for decoys.
You know, there's only so many routes that you can take from Joint Base Andrews to the White House.
There's only so many ways you can protect that helicopter from ground-based fire or whatever.
So they have two or three flying sometimes at the same time.
And you never know which one the president's on.
Sometimes it's just one.
I mean, they they mix it up, uh, but there are two Air Force Ones.
And they both go when the president goes.
You just never hear about the second one.
Second one takes overflow press, and you don't know which one the president's on, most of the time, when they when they go out.
They don't take off identically at the same time.
Uh they're blocked from flight tracker apps.
Where do they park such a different, it's always at a different airbrease.
Different Air Force uh base, uh nearest Air Force base or a different airport.
They never put them at the same place.
And that's for a reason too.
Now, this is is is it's flying out of Andrews.
Um they'll use two.
Then they're both at the same place.
Uh in domestic circumstances, uh, sometimes there is only one, uh, if it's just a domestic flight, but oftentimes they use them both.
Uh and they use it for overflow and for decoy.
Uh but in a in a place like when the president comes here, you see him get on the airplane.
I mean, you can't, you can't miss which one he's on.
Uh, and in a lot of places TV cameras and so forth.
But you that's why the second one is is somewhere else that you don't see.
So that when they're both airborne, you don't know which one he's on.
Uh, because they can't be tracked.
They're uh GPS or the flight track mechanism always blocked.
Anyway, enough of that.
Uh Ben Carson last night connected.
Well, here's the headline.
This is uh make sure one of them is the New York Daily News.
And this one is uh different, I don't know what website it is.
Ben Carson connects Clinton to Satan in convention address.
Ben Carson links Hillary Clinton to Lucifer in Republican National Convention speech because of her 1969 college thesis.
Dr. Ben Carson suggested that electing Hillary Clinton would be the same as endorsing the devil himself.
No, he didn't say that.
All Ben Carson did was point out something the drive-by media has studiously ignored.
In fact, try try to reverse this.
If the drive-bys could discover that Trump's hero was Lucifer, can you imagine what they would do with that?
What happened is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both are devotees of a genuine lunatic by the name of Saul Olinski.
Now he was brilliant.
Saul Alensky wrote a book called Rules for Radicals, and it was all about how to dismantle nations like the United States and turn them over to whoever, the underclass, the minorities, the victims of capitalism, although it was much more pointed than that.
And in the in the dedication, rules for radical, Saul Owensky dedicates the book to the first radical Lucifer.
Satan.
Here's what Ben Carson had to say last night.
And by the way, a lot of not enough, but some conservative blogs are really ripping into Carson for doing this.
Some of the blogs I've seen said that their assessment of the convention last night was the Trump kids were good, that DJ Jr. was a little bit better than Tiffany.
That Christie, Chris Christie just knocked it out of the Oh my God, what a great speech indictory Clinton and having the audience serve as the jury for one indictment after another on her foreign policy failures and screw-ups.
And then the last thing, Ben Carson came along and destroyed the whole night by delivering a speech that was aimed at small subset of extreme wacko conservatives.
Somebody speaking to a convention using quotes from Saul Alinsky, may as well not even be at that convention.
Nobody cares, nobody knows who Alinsky is.
Some of the conservative blogs said that.
So there are a lot of people not really in touch with what's happening here.
But here's here's the subject.
Here's the essence of it.
This Ben Carson last night, and I frankly thought, just in terms of energy, presentation and focus, I think this is the best speech I've seen him give in a long time.
Here's a segment of it.
Little portion.
Let me tell you something about Saul Alinsky.
He wrote a book called Rules for Radicals.
On the dedication page, it acknowledges Lucifer, the original radical who gained his own kingdom.
Now think about that.
This is a nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our creator.
This is a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says we are one nation under God.
This is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill in our wallet says, in God we trust.
So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?
And every crowd shouted no and so forth.
So you you note that the Carson was careful not to say that Hillary Clinton endorsed Lucifer, that Hillary Clinton has as a role model someone who acknowledges Lucifer.
And then, of course, grab uh Soundbite 24.
Let's we can sum up Chris Christie in one soundbite.
And I have to tell you about this.
When Christie went out there, I uh I was a little trepidatious.
And I'll tell you why.
Because at the 2012 convention, he was the keynoter.
That was the Romney Convention.
That was the Clint Eastwood empty chair commercial convention.
But Christie was a keynoter.
What's the keynoter do?
Traditionally, what's keynote speech do?
Promotes the candidate, goes out there, and I just make the case for the candidate.
Canada is the greatest thing walking the planet.
This candidate, you can't afford not to elect this candidate.
It is all about the candidate.
And Christie didn't do that.
He uh he did a biography, an autobiography kind of speech, but it was really pre-publicized.
You remember going into the 2012 race, there was a moment in time during that campaign where where all kinds of people were begging Christie to run.
Remember, he went out to the Reagan library and made a speech in the audience, run Chris, why don't you run?
QA seemed like every other question, why aren't you running?
And he had his answer that he just wasn't ready and so forth.
So he was a star in the making in 2012.
And they had a camera with him backstage right before he was going to go out in curtains, and he was um it was like a prize fighter, Revving up for the big fight, psyching up, had his handlers there, slapping him on the back.
You can do it, bud.
You can do it, you can do it.
You're the champ, you can do it.
And they announced his name, and he said, clapped his hands, let's do this.
He walked out there quickly, ran out there, and the convention went nuts.
And the speech ended up being well, it wasn't what people were expecting.
So, when he goes out there last night, and I'm really hoping the convention ends soon, because there's some TV shows I want to watch.
And I want to get to the Trump kids.
I want to get to the finale here so I can because it's getting late.
And I can only squeeze so much TV viewing in before I go to bed.
And Christie announces the premise of his speech.
This is great.
He's gonna actually make the case against her as a former prosecutor.
He's gonna lay it out, and it's gonna leave I mean, there's gonna be no confusion here.
He's gonna just destroy her.
And I started imagining all of the ways that he could go after her for crying out just in this FBI email thing alone, and then the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, and then all the money the Clintons have earned making speeches and so forth.
I know there's no crime there, but you could still, if you're doing a mock uh indictment, you can indict her for for being distant, and there's any number of ways to do this, with even with the premise, and I th I was really revved up.
I thought, whoa, this has a chance.
And then he said, and let's get started in North Africa.
And I said, What?
So we went to Libya, we went to Nigeria, and then we went to Syria, and then we went to Iran, and we went to Iraq.
And he would spend 30 to 40 seconds explaining her failures in all these places, and then asked the audience, the jury for their verdict.
Guilty!
Lock her up!
Lock her up!
And I thought it was good, but it could have been oh, the potential.
This premise was astoundingly good.
But he didn't, if I'm my memory may be failing me here, but I don't think he spent much time on domestic policy failures of the Clinton foundations or anything to do with the FBI.
Well, no, we did.
He did.
He did point out that the FBI had had logged all of the lies that she had told in this.
So that that's so here's a taste of how that went.
It's audio soundbite number uh 24.
As to Hillary Clinton, the charge of putting herself ahead of America, guilty or not guilty.
That's the Hillary Clinton lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.
What's your verdict?
Guilty or not guilty?
Time after time after time, the facts and just the facts lead you to the same verdict, both around the world and here at home.
In Libya and Nigeria, guilty.
In China and Syria, in Iran and Russia and Cuba, and here at home for risking America's secrets to keep her own and lying to cover it all up.
And then the audience at various stages was shouting, lock her up, lock her up, and Christie did nothing to shut them down.
Well, the drive-bys are beside themselves, and the Democrat Party is beside itself today.
Why, this is akin to running a banana republic.
This is talking about putting your political enemies in jail.
That only happens in Bananica Republics.
This is horrible.
This is beyond the pale.
There's so much hatred.
Christie was inciting a mob.
It's horrible.
ABC, MSNBC, beside themselves.
He was inciting a mob.
We really thought that Hillary Clinton was going to be killed.
Oh my God!
He was revving that crud up.
We've never seen anything like it.
So it must have been effective.
Because the drive-bys were.
So they got a double dose.
And they got Ken Ben Carson linking Hillary to Sololinski, who admired Lucifer, the devil.
And by the way, as I mentioned at the top of the program, we happen to make a joke musical parody on Tom Dashel back in the early 2000s here, calling him El Diablo.
And man, they blew up at that.
For a bunch of people who don't believe in God, jokingly referring to him as El Diablo or Lucifer, they just lose it.
And here in the Washington Post, the LA Times.
It's an op-ed by somebody named James Kirchuk.
If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S. Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story, the latest violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil should pause.
Americans should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump were to win the presidency.
Trump is the most brazenly authoritarian figure to secure the nomination of a major American political.
How you can write that with somebody like Barack Obama in office, to whom the Constitution is something to be kicked out of the way if it gets in your way in a stroll in the park.
Trump is the most brazenly authoritarian figure to secure the nomination of a major American political party.
He expresses his support for all manner of strong men, and his campaign manager has actually worked for one Ukrainian president and Vladimir Putin ally, Viktor Yanukovych.
So if Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S. Because it might be necessary to get rid of him.
And then Reuters and the New York Post have this story.
Exclusive.
Trump could seek a new law to purge the government of Obama appointees.
I don't know if the Libs have run across this yet.
But when they do, there is going to be hell to pay.
If he wins the presidency, Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers.
You know the source for this?
Chris Christie, who wants to be the attorney general that would make this happen.
Here's Bill in Southampton, New York.
Bill, I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush.
It's an honor.
To your earlier point, I just wanted to say that once again, you're right.
No surprise there.
No.
We of this movement have existed for at least 20 years.
I mean, it's been going on for a long time.
And we're just happy that Donald Trump has come along.
Because we basically need him, and we need, you know, him to somehow do something with the agenda that we feel is important because we love our great country and we want it back.
That's my point, and you were right.
It existed before D.T. came along.
Right.
Now, I don't want anybody to misunderstand this.
Bill, I appreciate the call.
This was a discussion in the early hours of the program today on the drive-by's efforts to destroy Trump and my my claim that they can't.
They didn't, A, they didn't make Trump.
So they can't destroy him.
Trump is not who he is because the media has given him accolades and built him up and created his great branded image.
He's done all that himself.
There's another reason they can't, and that is that this political movement, whatever it is, however you would describe it, existed and has been effervescing out there, meaning it's been bubbling up and growing.
Long before this presidential campaign.
Trump happened to tap into it, whether he knew what he was doing or not.
And therefore it now has a leader.
And that is why this group is not going to allow Trump to be destroyed, because the movement doesn't depend on him.
It's bigger than he is.
They're not going to let Trump being taken out destroy the movement.
So therefore they're not going to let Trump be taken out.
There's nothing the media can report about Trump that will make them abandon him.
Because they need him.
They need him as the figurehead leader of the.
This is not to diminish Trump.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand.
But it's so often the media misunderstands things that are happening right in front of their faces.
Such as this program and its success is the same thing.
There were all kinds of conservatives all over this country, but there was nobody in the media saying what they agreed with.
I came along and I was somebody who validated what they already thought.
I didn't create any of this.
And it's somewhat similar with Trump.
So they can that's another thing that I don't think these conventional wisdom insiders get.
They think that Trump's like any other candidate.
You can take him out using the standard practices of journalism when you want to destroy somebody.
And they haven't been able to do so in almost a year.
Hammerback, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Dan Seenor, Republican establishment, husband of Campbell Brown, former NBC News InfoBabe.
Dan Seenor was one of the information people for uh Paul Brammer at the Green Zone in Iraq after we had um after we had uh successfully ousted Saddam Hussein.
What's this?
Cruz's speech this afternoon was interrupted briefly by Trump's plane arriving, CNN found.
Oh, yeah, I I know I noticed that.
Uh Cruz is out there giving a speech and so forth, revving up the crowd, and all of a sudden they switched to Trump's plane arriving and landing and then taxiing in.
And they didn't ever go back to the cruise speech, did they?
Oh, Cruz could see the plane coming in as CNN cut away.
All right.
Right, okay.
And they never went back to the cruise speech.
So well, somebody, you know, it was known what time Trump's going to arrive, right?
Somebody should have said, you know, you need to wrap this up before Trump enters Cleveland Airspace, because once that happens, the cameras are going to go skyward, trying to find Trumpist one.
Well, anyway.
Dan Seynour was on CBS this morning speaking with Nora O'Donnell, and he says the party's dissolving.
The Republican's over.
This is a disaster.
It's horrible.
Oh no.
I was on the floor right there during the roll call vote.
So I've been to many conventions during the roll call vote.
The energy and intensity during that moment is palpable.
People are off, you know, swinging from the ceiling because they're so accepted a nominee.
You could hear a pin drop.
It was muted in here.
I just think this is a party that is sort of resigned to this nominee, but not excited about it.
All right, there you have it.
So here's the case.
Inside the convention, he's watching the roll call vote or any noise.
There's no rah-rah.
Mr. German, the state, the palm of the state, the state with more toilet paper than any state in the nation.
The toilet greatest smell in the country right here in our state.
We can't start.
No noise whatsoever.
Seenor says that there's no excitement in here.
I mean, this he says this.
I know what he's talking about.
He's he says this convention is filled with people who really can't believe they did what they've done.
That's his point.
They got people inside the hall here, and it's just now hit them at Donald Trump's a nominee, and they're going, oh no, what?
So there's no excitement.
He says the mood inside the hall, you can just feel it is one of my God.
Now that's what these guys want to think.
So Nora O'Donnell said to Dan Senior, well, it's being reported that former President George W. Bush was speaking with some former aides, and he said that he thinks he might be the last Republican president.
What do you think of that, Dan?
I hear a lot of people going, is the party dissolving?
Because keep in mind, it is true that the Bushes and the Romneys and other traditional party leaders are not here.
And people in the hall say, well, it's a movement, and they're not part of the movement.
But the problem is, Romney only got 61 million votes last time.
He still lost.
You need at least 61 million voters, more than that to be competitive, which means you need the people who resonate with the Romney's.
It's bad news out there.
And it's inside the hall.
There's no excitement, and they can't believe that they've really done what they've done.
That sounds like wishful thinking, but I know what he's talking about.
Here's George Stephanopoulos.
This is another theme that's all over the place.
And that is there are too many Trump family members that are overplaying the family card.
Way too many Trump family people out there, and there's way too many Trump family members involved in a campaign.
They don't know what they're doing.
They shouldn't be selecting vice presidents, and they shouldn't be writing speeches, and they shouldn't be planning conventions because the Trump family doesn't know anything about politics.
And there's too many of them on the convention floor, and there's too many of them speaking, and they're over.
Can you imagine them saying this about the Kennedy family?
You imagine them saying this about all the Clinton uh barmaids and the ladies of the night and the other guests that are part of the Clinton uh extended family show that was never ever say anything about that.
Here's a conversation between George Stephanopoulos and Coke Roberts on ABC.
Is there any danger of overplaying the family card?
Sure there is, because at some point, isn't there anybody else?
And how many things can you say about how great my dad is?
Which is why Donald Trump Jr.'s speech last night was good, because he didn't just do that.
His wife gave the keynote speech, and now his daughter introducing them.
It is a family affair here.
And um Ivanka, though, uh everyone has been very impressed by, and of course the truth is they are his chief campaign advisors.
That family is a close corporation, and they are really the people doing the deciding here.
And so therefore the delegates on the floor want to know, you know, more about him.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
The delegates want to know more about him, but there are too many people talking about him.
Which is it?
She said here at the front, well, at some point, isn't there anybody else?
How many things can you say about how great my dad is?
And then at the end, the delegates on the floor, they want to know, you know, they want to know more about him.
So which is it?
Too much Trump, not enough Trump.
Too many Trumpers, too many Trump family members, not enough Trump family members.
Too many people singing dad's praises, not enough people doing it.
What is it?
They don't know how to report this.
It just doesn't.
Okay, Sturdley, you're right.
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce endorsing Clinton.
That's good.
From the politico inside the GOP's shadow convention, banking on an election day loss.
The party's elders and elite lay down the foundations to rebuild post-Trump.
And uh I think you find Jeb Bush in that crowd.
Cokey Roberts mentioned Donald Trump Jr. last night, and he did deliver it.
You know he did that without a prompter last night.
Are you aware of that?
He knew that speech in that's what I heard.
I heard he had did not use the prompter for the speech.
It was uh you know as I'm watching Donald Trump Jr. the reaction I had.
I'm thinking leftists, the socialists, the Democrats.
They've got to be watching this in sheer panic.
Articulate, intelligent, passionate, handsome, and not one of them.
I think Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump Sr.
Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump.
I think those are the kind of people the left resents the hell out of.
They're just lucky.
They're too perfect.
They're rich.
They're attractive.
They've never faced any bias or discrimination.
I just I think they have.
I think the Trump family is a almost a microcosm for what it is people on the left despise.
Because the Trump family doesn't need feminism.
They don't need uh any of the other leftist causes to have any meaning in their lives.
They're self-sufficient, they're self-reliant, they're intelligent, they're educated, they're independently intelligent.
They've been raised, obviously great by a father and mother that care deeply about them.
Everything the left resents is wrapped up here, I think.
And I mean that, folks.
I know I think it from the bottom of my heart.
That the Trump family stokes resentment like you can't believe that's why all these people, there's too many Trump kids on the stage.
There's too much Trump, there are too many family members, they don't know what they're doing.
That's not why.
They make too good an impression.
Listen to a little of Donald Trump Jr.
He didn't hide out behind some desk in an executive suite.
He spent his career with regular Americans.
He hung out with the guys on construction sites, pouring concrete and hanging sea rock.
He listened to them, and he valued their opinions as much and often more than the guys from Harvard and Wharton, locked away in offices away from the real work.
Now the establishment rolls their eyes at this stuff, but this I think is part of the bond that Trump has with his supporters.
To this day, many of the top executives in our company are individuals that started out in positions that were blue-collar.
But he saw something in them, and he pushed them to succeed.
His true gift as a leader is that he sees the potential in people that they don't even see in themselves.
The potential that other executives would overlook because their resumes don't include the names of fancy colleges and degrees.
You know, that's another way of saying that we all have somebody in our lives who taught us that we're capable of much more than we think we are.
Some people it's a teacher, uh, other people it's a coach, sometimes it's a parent.
And what Donald Trump Jr. is saying here is that he sees the potential in people they don't see in themselves.
And he tells them, and what he's really saying here is that his dad has helped people become better than they would be.
And I have no doubt of that.
And you th there there aren't any books about what a rotten boss Trump is, or what a cheater skin flint.
His family doesn't show up on TMZ every weekend.
You don't have any Kardashian-like activity there.
You never see him on police reports, police blotters, or any of that.
Here's one more DJ Trump Jr. sound.
I know he values those workers and those qualities and people because those are the individuals he had my siblings and me work under when we started out.
That he would trust his own children's formative years to these men and women, says all you need to know about Donald Trump.
We didn't learn from MBAs.
We learned from people who had doctorates in common sense.
It's why we're the only children of billionaires as comfortable in a D-10 caterpillar as we are in our own cars.
Do you think John Kerry knows what a D-10 caterpillar is?
Probably thinks it's some kind of an insect that you send a servant for the can of rain for.
No, no, I have that right here.
Um six figures, six people.
Speaking of the Democrat National Convention will make you sick.
It's a Ben Shapiro piece.
Uh I purposely save this for uh tomorrow.
This is uh uh people are saying that this is horrible.
They sent Patricia Smith out there to Jenna Bulled hatred for Hillary, it's horrible, exploiting this poor woman, and the Democrats are gonna have mothers out the wazoo next week.
So when they do it, it's brilliant, it's touching, it's fine.
When the Republicans do it, it's exploitation.
And I save this when we had a little bit more time to delve into this.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll see you.
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